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Quote by Walter Bagehot
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. – Walter Bagehot

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. – Walter Bagehot

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Opinion
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Walter Bagehot
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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

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Presidency
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didnt know how other people would take it. – B. B. King

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And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. – Terri Guillemets

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I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didnt quite have perhaps the drive or, I dont know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. – David Hockney

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My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me. – Novak Djokovic

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Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then youve really got a problem… Problems are like landmarks of progress. – Scott Alexander

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